TexLive on FreeBSD 8.1

[Antonio Olivares]

Thank you Roland, I will download 8.1 Release and attempt it.  Thanks
your for your advice and for the howto :)

Regards,

Antonio

On 7/24/10, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 07:51:55PM +0000, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>> Dear folks,
>>
>> Sorry to ask about this since this has been beaten to death many
>> times, but I *wonder* why FreeBSD does not have TeXLive as default tex
>> installation?
>
> TeXLive has a _huge_ list of options, and its own configuration/install
> script. I guess that makes it hard to port.
>
>> Is there a foolproof/idiotproof way of installing TeXLive, even from
>> source, that does not require one to have tetex?
>
> I've documented my install (including building the binaries from source) at
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/unix/misc.xhtml#updatingtexlivetoversion2009
>
> I've been using TeXLive on FreeBSD for years without problems.
>
> There are some ports (e.g. auctex for emacs) that require TeX. For those
> ports, I  patch their Makefiles to use TeXLive. Below is the patch for
> auctex's port Makefile;
>
> ----- auctex port patch -----
> --- Makefile.orig	2009-07-31 15:55:10.000000000 +0200
> +++ Makefile	2009-12-21 16:06:05.000000000 +0100
> @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
>  MAINTAINER=	hrs at FreeBSD.org
>  COMMENT=	Integrated environment for writing LaTeX using GNU Emacs
>
> -BUILD_DEPENDS=	${MKTEXLSR}:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base
> -RUN_DEPENDS=	${MKTEXLSR}:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base
> +#BUILD_DEPENDS=	${MKTEXLSR}:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base
> +#RUN_DEPENDS=	${MKTEXLSR}:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base
>
>  USE_GHOSTSCRIPT=yes
>  GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
> @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
>  		MKTEXLSR=${MKTEXLSR}
>  INFO=		auctex preview-latex
>
> -TEXMFDIR=	share/texmf
> -MKTEXLSR=	${LOCALBASE}/bin/mktexlsr
> +TEXMFDIR=	texlive/2009/texmf
> +MKTEXLSR=	${LOCALBASE}/texlive/2009/bin/amd64-freebsd/mktexlsr
>
>  NOT_FOR_ARCHS=	ia64
>
> ----- auctex port patch -----
>
> Roland
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